Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
Italian painter
Died when: 38 years 321 days (466 months)Star Sign: Leo
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter.He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico.He used a divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.
Although he exhibited often, his work achieved popularity in death through their reproduction in socialist magazines and the acclaim they received from 20th century art critics.
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